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"Hog" Quotes from Famous Books

... and dogs again," said Fenwick. "You saw the road coming in. It's a hog wallow by now. Your chance of getting through ...

— The Great Gray Plague • Raymond F. Jones

... Northampton had very doubtful reputations; Mother Sutton of Bedford was alleged to have three illegitimate children. The rest of the witches of the time were not, however, quite so low in the scale. They were household servants, poor tenants, "hog hearders," wives of ...

— A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 • Wallace Notestein

... jokes got well worn in the course of two or three months, from repeated use; for every time Cauchon started a new trial the folk said "The sow has littered [2] again"; and every time the trial failed they said it over again, with its other meaning, "The hog has ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... who wishes a thing so unreasonable must be a great hog! What a thing is sleep! Here are these fine fellows as much lost to their dangers and toils as if at home, and tucked in by their careful and pious mothers. Little did the good souls who nursed them, and sung pious songs over their cradles, ...

— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper

... away from there. Mind you, that ram does like grass, and he's got several hundred thousand square mile of it to lunch on—but no, sir! What he must have is a hunk of bread out of Billy's barrel. Now, Billy's no hog—he lets him have the piece of bread—then the ram wants the hull barrel; hoops, staves, and all. That's too hootin' goldarn many for anybody to stand, by ninety-nine per cent., so Bill slams him one. The ram walks off and fetches him a swat like hittin' a side ...

— Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters • Henry Wallace Phillips

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